InCommon Library Services

["Ingham, Andy" <>]

Steve --

We've been in a holding pattern with Ebsco for at least 6 months.

The crux of the issue for us has been their requirement that BOTH
ScopedAffiliation AND eduPersonEntitlement (ePE) be released to their SP.

We can obviously do that, the problem is that we entitle (give the ePE to)
people for whom we CANNOT give authoritative ScopedAffiliations.  This is
because our LDAP contains records for two organizations that have separate
but related ID management systems (unchealthcare.org and northcarolina.edu
(the 16-campus umbrella University of North Carolina)).

Therefore, we would have a segment of our population that can successfully
use our proxy server (which only requires the ePE) that would fail on
authorization going directly to Ebsco via Shib.

And yes, they've essentially stopped responding to me as well.


Andy

On 4/14/11 7:42 AM, "Steven Carmody" 
<>
 wrote:

>Brown has begun a project to evaluate the hybrid environment described
>by this group's work -- adding Shibboleth-enabled access to the existing
>IP-based authentication to content providers.
>
>We've begun testing Shib-enabled access to EBSCO. We've made the changes
>at the EBSCO admin screens, and our IDP logs indicate that we're
>releasing the correct attributes. However, EBSCO isn't "authorizing" our
>browser user. We've been working with EBSCO staff, but no progress. More
>recently, they've stopped responding.
>
>Does anyone on this list have experience working with EBSCO ? Any
>"tricks" to get this to work ? Any suggestions on how to get EBSCO to
>work with us ?
>
>Thanks!